by Dan Mitchell | Apr 13, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
As part of my everything-you-need-to-know series, I shared an incomprehensible flowchart showing the ridiculous maze of federal welfare programs back in 2015. Today, let’s look at another visual that captures what’s wrong with the Washington welfare...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 2, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
One of the big problems with centralization is that taxes are imposed on people living in communities across the country. The money then goes to Washington, where some of it is spent on bureaucracy (including the shadow bureaucracy), and then...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 8, 2024 | Blogs, Education, States
The 2020s, at least so far, should be known as the school choice decade. Here are some examples of progress, starting in early 2021. West Virginia Arizona Iowa Utah Arkansas Florida Indiana Oklahoma North Carolina But if this map from the Education...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 21, 2024 | Blogs
Almost exactly six years ago, I shared a column with this video of a member of the European Parliament explaining the principle of mutual recognition. But that column was mostly about the benefits of jurisdictional competition and I only mentioned mutual recognition...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 20, 2023 | Blogs
Fixing entitlement programs is the the most pressing fiscal need in Washington. In a discussion with the Club for Growth Foundation, I explain that we also need federalism – i.e., shifting programs to the state and local level. At the risk of...
